The ability to easily create an IP network in rural areas, developing countries and disaster zones makes it much easier for people to communicate with one another.

Building on the innovative research efforts and tireless support of the Wireless Africa group at the Meraka Institute of the CSIR, the sometimes terrifying growth of the Scarborough Wireless Users Group and tools developed by the Open Mesh team Afrimesh provides a simple management dashboard helping network operators create and sustain resilient communications networks with a minimum of fuss.

• Powerful mesh network routing with B.A.T.M.A.N.
• Dynamic GIS visualization of your mesh on OpenStreetMap maps.
• Plan your network using the terrain elevation map.
• Visualize live health&traffic information for any mesh node.
• Keep inventory of your network devices.
• Monitor the health&usage of your Internet gateway.
• Monitor live network accounting information from pmacct.
• View network status & log messages in realtime.
• Customer management interface featuring FreeRADIUS support.
• Customer authentication featuring coova-chilli support.
• Online help and live chat support.
• Intelligent configuration assistance.
• Build and manage mesh networks even without an Internet connection.
• Now supports the VillageTelco Mesh Potato.

• Installation instructions

• afrimesh - General discussion, questions & help
• afrimesh-devel - Developer mailing list

• server: irc.freenode.net
• channel: #afrimesh

• Request features and report your bugs
• Setting up a DevelopmentEnvironment